Kentuck Knob

Kentuck Knob is a building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright private house for the family IN Hagan from Pennsylvania / USA, which used it as a summer house.

In 1953, the family bought a larger Hagan land of about 32 hectares in the western mountains above Uniontown Pennsylvania / USA. In this area their ancestors had lived for generations. They were with the owners of 11 km northern summer residence of Fallingwater, the Kaufmann family, friends, and had hoped to be able to build such a beautiful home.

The Kaufmann family made ​​contact with Frank Lloyd Wright, which was now 86 years old at that time and the construction of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, the Beth Sholom Synagogue in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, and with about 13 other private houses was busy. He designed the house without ever having to enter the land or the construction site, only having regard to the landscape profile and photos that have been submitted to it. He placed the building on the top of 620 meters high eponymous hill, which was at that time still without trees. This was later planted especially by Mrs. Hagan.

The continuous design principle for Kentuck Knob is the hexagon ( hexagon). In the center stands as a hexagon, the kitchen, from the branch the living room, bedroom and guest rooms. The architect stayed in the sense of organic architecture that the building blends harmoniously into the environment and the separation between interior and exterior space is mitigated. To be brought by a spacious terrace and window surfaces the light and the landscape into the house and merged into one unit. At lot of wood and stone dominate from the environment. Kentuck Knob is one of the first houses that Frank Lloyd Wright signed also by attaching a stamped metal plaque in the sense of a work of art.

The Hagan family took advantage of Kentuck Knob more than 30 years as a private house in the summer months. The heirs sold it after the death of Ms. Hagan in 1986 to Lord Peter Palumbo of London in England. He uses the -house, but it has opened to the public since 1996.

Lord Peter Palumbo expanded through acquisitions, the house belonging to the plot much here and let sculptures and land art art by Andy Goldsworthy, up Claes Oldenburg, Sir Anthony Caro and Ray Smith. In addition, a visitors center has been established.